Features and Growing Tips

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Landscape Qualities

Pink Dynamo Hydrangea is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.

Ornamental Qualities

Pink Dynamo Hydrangea features bold hot pink lacecap flowers with white overtones at the ends of the branches from late spring to late summer | which emerge from distinctive coral-pink flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has attractive forest green-variegated deep purple foliage with hints of black which emerges brick red in spring. The serrated pointy leaves are highly ornamental but do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Pink Dynamo Hydrangea will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 3 feet. It has a low canopy. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. You may want to keep it away from hot | dry locations that receive direct afternoon sun or which get reflected sunlight | such as against the south side of a white wall. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. To help this plant achieve its best flowering performance | periodically apply a flower-boosting fertilizer from early spring through into the active growing season. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution | and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun to partial shade

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 3'Hx3'W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are hot pink

Flowers from late spring to late summer

Zone 5a

Likes average to moist soil